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Pediatric Primary Care

You want the best care for your child. That starts with a primary care provider—someone who specializes in taking care of your child's overall health and well-being. Someone who knows your family and your child’s medical history best. Whether you prefer a family medicine doctor, pediatrician or nurse practitioner, count on the best care for your child’s best future. Choose from our 30+ primary care locations. ...

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Dental Specialties

Let us give you a reason to smile.We’re one of only a few healthcare organizations to offerspecialtydentalcare—frombraces placementtowisdom teethremoval.Our dental specialists work to provide you with a unique treatment plan. ...

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Essential tips for preventing sports injuries

Getting exercise is good for your body and soul, but being active comes with a level of injury risk. Our sports medicine experts offer up some useful tips to help. ...

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General Surgery Residency Curriculum

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UWSMPH Phase 2 Students

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Investing in care close to home

All Winona services available in May Thousands of people in the Winona area set aside hours of personal time every year to drive to Gundersen Health System appointments in La Crosse, Onalaska and other locations, often with loved ones or friends. They will soon get precious time back. The Gundersen Winona Campus opens in May 2020 with a full range of care and treatment options at 1122 W. Hwy. 61. "What an amazing time to be in ...

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Grant funding enhances patient care at Gundersen

More than $5 million in grants awarded to Gundersen Medical Foundation in 2020 will fund critical research, boost medical education and improve patient care. Securing grants from private foundations and government agencies, the Foundation was awarded: $2 million for research programs $1.7 million for Telemedicine at Gundersen's Critical Access Hospitals $1.3 million for GHS Central Ca ...

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Gundersen receives Patient-Centered Medical Home certification

All primary care locations throughout Gundersen Health System, including Pediatrics, Family Medicine and General Internal Medicine, have achieved the highest level of Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.Medical Home is a healthcare model that emphasizes care coordination and communication to transform primary care into what patients want it to be. It's designed to assure patients receive q ...

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Gundersen receives Patient-Centered Medical Home certification

All primary care locations throughout Gundersen Health System, including Pediatrics, Family Medicine and General Internal Medicine, have achieved the highest level of Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. According to Kate O'Rourke, DO, physician at Gundersen St. Joseph's Hospital and Clinics, "Gundersen has long followed Medical Home principles, but this highest level of cert ...

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New Gundersen clinic to expand decades of care in Winona

Gundersen Health System has cared for patients in and around Winona, Minn., for decades, and the demand for care is increasing. To bring care closer to home for the many Winona area patients currently traveling to Gundersen locations in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wis., for their care, Gundersen will open a clinic with a full range of services at Highway 61 and Vila Street in Winona. "We are excited about our plans to expand on the ca ...

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Add to your back-to-school list: 1) Get vaccinated 2) Wear a mask

As families and students prepare back-to-school to-do lists, two important items should be added: COVID-19 vaccination and masking. These two important actions, layered with distancing and cleaning hands, will reduce the spread of the virus and protect against the severe illness that requires hospitalization. Gundersen is preparing for an increase in COVID-19 cases, especially for kid ...

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Visitor guidelines change Jan. 4

Due to a recent decrease in community spread of COVID-19, patients visiting Gundersen Health System hospitals and clinic can soon bring one person with them.Beginning, Monday, Jan. 4, one person, 16 years old or older, may accompany a patient. Restrictions still apply for COVID-positive hospitalized patients, as well as patients with COVID symptoms in Emergency Services and Urgent Care.Pediatric patients at Gundersen clinic locations will continu ...

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Everything is safer if you’re vaccinated

Western Wisconsin is a leader for COVID-19 vaccination, with 60% of residents 18 years and older receiving at least one dose of free, safe vaccine, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Yet, we can do better. Everyone age 12 and older is encouraged to get the COVID-19 vaccine, which provides the surest protection against the virus and its variants. Worst is the Del ...

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We are vaccinating and masking for you. Please vaccinate and mask for us.

Gundersen Health System staff are providing incredible care for patients across the area with many different conditions and illnesses. More COVID-19 hospitalizations make this care much more difficult. Gundersen is seeing between 40 and 50 COVID-positive hospitalized patients across its system at any given time. Total COVID-related hospitalizations system wide since the start of the p ...